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Contract of a stonemason

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Description

P.Oxy. I 133-139 are concerned with the affairs of Fl. Apion, his heirs, or his son, Fl. Apion the younger. The family figures in a considerable proportion of the Oxyrhynchus papyri of this period. Acknowledgement given to Fl. Apion by John, chief of the stonemasons, for the receipt of one gold solidus, for which sum he engages to transport 200 blocks of stone to a lakos or cistern on Fl. Apion's estate.

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Found at Oxyrhynchus

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